When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
"Sorry, folks, that's called progress."
/"Harding Park completes rebound by joining TPC network"
/Cindy Elliott files a nice history of Harding that lead to the uh, rebound completion.
Phil Rethinking The Whole In-N-Out Boycott Thing
/Buzz Taylor, RIP
/Here's a nice obituary by Kathie Bassett on the former USGA President.
"A question that has been posed frequently on tour is: why do professionals demand deafening silence while they are hitting their shots?"
/"If phone engineers thought like golf architects, our cell phones would still be attached to the wall."
/"There is not 20 percent growth in the game of golf to be had in the U.S. or U.K., in my humble opinion. Out here there is."
/Tiger, Westwood Driving Range Tension Palpable Over No. 1 Ranking
/"If we just prepared it on the points won so far this year Woods would not be in the top 50"
/The European Tour's statistics expert Ian Barker defended the World Ranking after Butch Harmon criticized the elevation of Lee Westwood to the top spot.
"If we just prepared it on the points won so far this year Woods would not be in the top 50 and Martin Kaymer would be comfortably the world number one," Barker, the European Tour's director of information services, told Reuters.
"Anyway, Butch may well have his wish on Sunday because Martin will go to number one if he comes second in Valderrama."
"San Diego not feeling much love from USGA"
/2010 Best New Courses...Whitten Only Edition
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With only 24 courses opening this year and even fewer on the horizon, Golf Digest's Ron Whitten offers a summary of the best stuff he saw in 2010. Included was Gil Hanse's Castle Stuart and a nice mention of our H-O-R-S-E course at Prairie Club."How do I get my course nationally rated?"
/Besides being really, really nice to panelists?
Golfweek's Brad Klein answers the question "How do I get my course nationally rated?"

